Between snow days last week and Monday off this week, we have had two very short weeks! Throughout these weeks we have spent times learning about the prairie. Last Thursday we learned about Native Americans that lived on prairies a long time ago. We discussed their culture, and some differences in their lifestyle from ours. The students then built little tepees, and drew Native American symbols on them (and made up some of their own!).
This week we learned about pioneers that use to live on the prairie. We even made our own homemade butter! It was delicious! The students also worked together to make a Venn diagram about the differences between living in pioneer times and now. Though we found many differences, the students also realized that their were many similarities like a families, animals, and church!
We also learned about prairie dogs that live on prairies. We read a hilarious book called The Great Fuzz Frenzy about silly prairie dogs finding a tennis ball! The students made their own fuzzy prairie dogs and wrote a sentence about them.
Besides all the fun prairie learning, we are continuing to learn letter blends in phonics. These past two weeks we talked about mp, nd, and st. The students have also been practicing hearing the ending sounds in words. It's amazing how many words the students can read now! Our word wall is full!
In math we have begun to learn about halves, thirds, and fourths. This has been a fun concept to learn! Another new thing we learned these past few weeks is tying shoes! The students have picked up quickly on this! We'll work on this for a few more weeks! If you tie shoes at home and hear about mountains and tepees, then they're probably singing our shoe tying rhyme...
Build a tepee, come inside. Close it tight so we can hide. Make a mountain, around we go. Here's my arrow, here's my bow!
Next week we're moving on to another part of the world, rivers! Can't wait to see everyone at parent/teacher conferences on Friday!
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